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Your Neighbourhood, Your City, Your Planet
28th October 2022
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Your Neighbourhood, Your City, Your Planet – Consultation launched on key planning document set to shape the future of Leeds

Leeds City Council is encouraging residents and businesses to have their say on its draft Local Plan Update, which sets out the authority’s approach to planning policy and new development across the district over the next decade and beyond. The Local Plan Update, titled ‘Your Neighbourhood, Your City, Your Planet’ is focused on helping
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West Yorkshire Prepared
28th October 2022
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Resilence grant funding on offer for West Yorkshire communities

For the second year running, West Yorkshire Prepared, the region’s Local Resilience Forum, will be offering funds to communities to enable them to better prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies and major incidents. The Community Grant Initiative, which was launched last year, aims to help communities across West Yorkshire increase their resilience
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Connecting Leeds Transport Strategy
28th October 2022
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Leeds businesses and charities invited to sustainable business travel event

Leeds City Council is inviting professionals to attend a free online conference on Monday that will see experts share inspiration, opportunities, and advice to help businesses, charities, and other organisations looking to reduce their emissions from transport. The ‘Journey to Zero: Greening Business Travel’ morning event marks the end of the council’s popular electric
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Alderman and Alderwoman with the Lord Mayor of Leeds
21st October 2022
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Fourteen former Leeds councillors receive major civic honour

Fourteen former Leeds councillors received one of the highest civic honours the city can bestow, at a special session of full council, marking their exceptional contribution to Leeds and its council. The group of former councillors, who have over 250 years of public service between them and include a former council leader, two former
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Alison Lowe Vision Zero
21st October 2022
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Launch event for the Leeds Safe Roads Vision Zero 2040 Strategy

Leeds Safe Roads Vision Zero 2040 Strategy launch event celebration. On 20 October 2022 Council members and partners came together to launch the Leeds Safe Roads Vision Zero 2040 strategy. The event in partnership with the Project EDWARD (Every Day Without A Road Death) saw speakers from key organisations who offered input into the
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Active Leeds
21st October 2022
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Active Leeds launches new corporate wellbeing service

Active Leeds has launched a new corporate wellbeing service, in order to support businesses across Leeds create healthier, happier and more resilient workforces. The new corporate wellbeing offer is based on a partnership approach, with Active Leeds utilising its unique position to support businesses to develop strategies, design interventions and deliver projects that can
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Whitehall Riverside Pocket Park
21st October 2022
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First look at plans for city’s new waterside pocket park

Work has begun on an eye-catching new pocket park celebrating the beauty and heritage of the city’s twin waterside. The new Whitehall Riverside Pocket Park will sit between the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and is set to include sustainable public seating areas, wildflowers and grassland. Delivered through an innovative partnership
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What can households do to recycle more chart
21st October 2022
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Keen recyclers invited to lead the way by becoming online #Binfluencers

Residents across Leeds are being invited to lead the way and become #Binfluencers by helping make sure more recyclable material ends up in green bins across the city. A recent independent bin composition analysis has just been completed, uncovering how households across Leeds use their black and green bin. The good news is that
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Warm Spaces Leeds
21st October 2022
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Online ‘warm spaces’ map to help residents in Leeds goes live

Locations offering support during the winter months. An online map showing the locations of ‘warm spaces’ in Leeds to help people with the cost of living crisis has gone live. The map, which can be seen at Warm Spaces Public app – embed (arcgis.com), shows the venues across the city which people are able
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Song- The Future
14th October 2022
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Opera star turns virtual virtuoso to inspire museum performance

One of China’s top opera stars has teamed up with a Leeds museum to create a unique digital performance telling the story of two cultures coming together. Using the latest motion capture technology, Wang Rousang, a star performer with the famed Shanghai Yue Opera House, has helped create a virtual reality character who will
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Mason Hicks New Children's Mayor of Leeds
14th October 2022
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New Children’s Mayor of Leeds officially announced

On Thursday 6 October, Mason Hicks, aged 9, from Whitkirk Primary School was announced as the new Children’s Mayor of Leeds by the Lord Mayor of Leeds Robert W Gettings MBE JP at a special event at Leeds Civic Hall. Mason spent much of the summer holidays campaigning in an election that saw nearly
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Leeds Secondary School Place
14th October 2022
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Apply for a secondary school place 2023

Half term is nearly here, which means for families with a child in Year 6 it’s time to look ahead to September 2023 and apply for a secondary school place. Parents and carers must apply to Leeds City Council by the deadline of Monday 31 October, using the online application form and stating their
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